The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-16
On laying that call before It's read
era the APPEAL well said:

On laying that call before its read
ers the APPEAL well said:
No movement hero during the past ten
years has offered such golden fruit. The pa
per is signed by neariy every member OF tho
committee, some few being absent. 1t can
bu meet with universal approval; and we
trust our busineps men, oil all callings, will
attend the preliminary meeting which PTesi-
dent Hidden, OF the Cotton Exchange, has
been requested 10 call next week, by so
many Of our leading and best citizens. Let
us meet, discuss and r solve that we will
have a Grand convention in November. If
cal cd, as we arc sure IL will be, IL will be at
tended By delek atoms OF able men from all
parts Of the country. Louisville. Cincin-
natl, Norfolk, Charleston and Savannah,
Ara ansas aud Texas, will all be most ably
represented. Commit ,ees Of invitations,
arrang ments, reception, finance, etc., wall
have to DO appointed, and VI II Is managed
as former conventions have been, we may
surely and speedily count upon such nm in.
crease of population, business and prosperi
| as Memphis has mover known.
I am very sure thai every nau who
sigaed that call would do 30 again and
again were it neediul, for an enter
prise like that grows In interest AT d
| importance just as population and
wealth grow under vigorous treat
ment.
All this has reference TO a period
eight years back, Had this Arkansas
and Jefferson road been started then
how many bales of cotton would
Memphis have received this year from
that prolific soilP With population
of fifteen to the square mile in 1880.
how many bales would Memphis have
received from the southwest last year
with a population Of twenty-five or
thirty to the square mile there2
1 always regarded Jerome Hill,o St.
Louie, ss q superior business man, but
do not remember ever to have seen
tho Ts.1s G! otha. so briefly yet COM
prehensiveiy stated by anyone,
when few weeks sincs he said in st.
Louis, an times OF stringent money
markets and general depression in COM
mercial affairs cotton is and has been
for the past fifty years boon to the
American merchant. In fact 1t ia
nearer an international bill of ex-
change THAI any article OF the Ameri-
can soil" OF what other agricultural
product can the same be said?
II read the news Alright our old and
reliable friend, F. II. Cossitt, of New
York, has again foiled Gould in his
effort to get coatrol Of our Little Rock
road. Had Gould won, three fourths
of the cotton Memphis gets from Ar
kansas aud Texas would soon be seek
ing q st. Louis market, and the 81 ,000,-
600 or 5000 600 Of dry goods, cloth
log, hardware, boots and shoes, hats,
drugs, crockery, glass and china,
books, stationery, sugar, coffee, teas,
bacon, lard, -four, and all the deli
cacies usually found in fancy grocery
stores, besides the numberless aids
and helps TO be found in stove and
furnishing houses, would have been ex-
changed for cottonl Why that conven-
ton was not held here in November,
1880, have never been able to find
out. Though the originator and active
mover in the mater, l was called to
Arkansas in November, and only
heard, on my return to Memphis, that
some few Of our leading citizens
thought 1t best to let the matter drop,
though one or two delegates from
Texas had actually arrived here.
], T. IRRELEVANT.